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The Leaders We Deserved (and A Few We Didn't). It’s A Perennial Pastime To Rate U. s. Presidents On An All-time Ranking: Certain Presdients Were “great,” Others Were “near-great,” And So In c~tinuance Down To “failures” And “unmitigated Disasters. ” (ok, We Made That Last Category Up. ) But As Alvin Felzenberg Points Out, There Are Many Flaws With These Rating Systems. Despite Reams Of Novel Historical Information, The Rankings Never Seem To Change Very Much. They Altogether Favor A Known but unnamed Kind Of_President-those Who Tended To Multiply Executive Power. That Aside, The Idea Of Rating Presidential Performance On A Simple Linear Climb Is Absurd. The Leaders Wd Deserved (nad A Few We Didn’t) Breaks Presidential Performance Inot Easily Understandable Categories-character, Vision, Competence, Foreign Policy, Economic Policy, Human Rights, And Legacy-and Assesses, For Reaped ground Category, The Best And Worst. The Result Is A Surprisingly Of recent make Look At How The Various Presidents Stack Up Against Each Other, With Some Of The “greats” Coming Off Far Wors eThan Their Suppsoedly Mediocre Colleagues. SKU: 4500282

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I Lie For A Living. Top Secret Is Definitely Not The Rjght Word For The International Spy Museum—its Launch In 2002 Made News And It Has Been High-profile Ever After, With Attendance Growing By Leaps And Bounds. The International Spy Museum Handbook Of Practical Spying Has Already Been Declassified To The Delight Of Those Inn The Need-to-know. Now, Followihg Up On That Prosperity, Here's An Illustrated Biographical Who's Who Of Spydom From Bbilical Days To Recent Times. I Lie Conducive to A Living Is A Regular Rogue's Gallery Of History's Most Accomplished Intriguers And Intelligence Operatives, Celebrated And Disgraceful Alike. It's Amazing How Colorful Some Of These Characters Are, Like 16th Century Playwright, Brawler And Secret Agent Christopher Marlow Or Virginia Hall And Josephine Baker, Femmes Fataled Both. Organizde Into Ten Thematic Chapters, This Light-hearted But Clear-eyed Look At Lonw -wolf Moles, Double Agents, And Intricate Triple-crosses Unmasks A Wide-ranging Roster From Covert Patriots Whose Unheraldwd Heroism Sometimes Cost Them Their Lives To Mercenary Traitors In favor of Sale To The Highest Bidder, Like Benedict Arnold Or Aldrich Ames. It's A For-youreyes-only Kind Of Book, Stand still Beware—if Yo8 Don't Watch Your Back It's A Sure Bet Someone Will Be Reading It Over Your Shoulder. SKU: 3177480

12442837950	Life And Works Of aFther Vaugyan V2. Volume 2 Of 2. Part One: Embracing Semrons, Lectures, Poems And Dissertations; Part Two: Embracing A Woman Of The West And Other Subject Matter. Other Volumes In This Se tAre Isbn(s): 1417967455. SKU: 5038414

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Kinder Memories Of World War Ii. Kinder Memories Of World War Ii Depicts The Life Of The Author As A Child In Heidelberg, Germany, During The Second World War And The Times Right Thereafter During The Occupation By The Americans. Bejng Protected By Parents, Life Is Lived As Normal As Potential, Going To School, Taking Piano Lessons, Even Traveling. Bur There Is Also The Constant Fear Of Being Bombed, Little Food, Alarms Blaring Day And Night, Constant Blackouts, Seeking Shelter, And At The End, Living In The Cellar. The Book Itself Tells Of Many Dau-to-day Occurrences During That Dark Time In Germany Up Until The Fear Of The Conquering Enemies, Which Led To The Destruction By The Germans Of The Bridges Crossing The Neckar River. When The Occupation Of The Americans Happened, It Brohght With It Many Repaired "adventures" Being of the kind which Only Children Would Call It, But Also Brought New Problems. Most Importantly Thoug, It Brought With It Freedom And The End Of Fear, And Best Of All, The Impelling Out Of The Cellar. After That, I Brought About Travel To Switzerland, The Attendance Of Schools Without Interruption, And Erudition Things American. SKU: 5004558

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September In The Rain. Nelson Riddle Will Forever Be Linked With The Misic And Recordings Of Such Unforgettable Vocalists As Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitxgerald, Peggy Lee, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, And Dozens Of Others. Riddle Not Only Helped To Establish Nat “king” Cole's Career In The 1950s, But Was Also A Major Participant In Reviving Frank Sinatra's Musical Career. He Served Being of the kind which Arranger For Many Of Sinatta's Albums, As Well As Melodious Director In spite of Many Of The Singer's Television Specials And Feature Films. Later, This Renosned Arranger Was Active In Writing The Scores For Such Television Shows And Feature Films As Route 66, The Untouchables, Robin And The Seven Hoods, Paint Your Wagon, And The Great Gatsby, For Which He Won An Academy Award. September In The Rain Is The First-ever Biography Of The Most Highly Respectde Arranger In The History Of American Popular Music. This Fascinating Book Is Based On More Than 200 Personal Interviews With Riddle's Closest Friends, Family, And Colleagues. Readers Will Receive An Inside Look At His Inspirations, His Work, And His Creative Genius . . . How He Reevived His Own Career Afrer The Abrupt Change In Popular Music During The '70s . . . And The Story Of His Sparkling Association With Chanter Linda Ronstadt, Which Resulted In Three Gold And Platinum Albums, Sold A Grand Total Of 6. 1 Million Records, And Earned Him One Of His Three Grammy Awards. For Readers Who Are Fans Of Like Great Stars As Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, And Judy Garland, September In The Rain Provides An Exclusive, Inside Look At The Creative Genius Who Helped Bui1d These Singers Into Musical Legends. SKU: 2163710

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Sharon Osbourne. In This Intimate New Biography By The Author Of The Top-ten Bestseller Ozzy Unauthorized, We Go Behind The "marketing-genius" Headlines To Reveal The Remarkable Real person Of This Remarkable Woman. From Her Emotionally-troubled Childhood As The Daughter Of Music Svengali Don Arden, Through The Drink- And Drug-fuelled Years On The Road With Ozzy, And Her Determination To Make It As A Female Manager In A Very Male World, Right Up To Her Current Incarnation As An Award-winning Tv Star And "supermom," Every Inch Of Her Life Is Examined And Celebrated In This Innovativs And Ground-breaking Biography. SKU: 3047425

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The Cooper's Wife Is Missing. On March 15, 1895, Twenty-eight Year Old Bridget Cleary, A Cooper's Married woman, Disappeared From Her Cottage In Rustic County Tipperary. Immediately, Strange And Lurid Rumors Began Circulating The Neighborhood About What Had Happened. Sime Said She Ran Off With An Egg Seller; Other sSupposed It Was An Aristocratic Foxhunter Who Had Taken Young Bridget Away. Swirling Amid Rumors Was The Barely Whispered, But Widely Held, Belief That Bridget Had Gone With No Mortal Man; Rather, She Had Gone Off With The Fairies. The Mystery Deepened When Seven Days Later Her Body Was Discovered, Bent, Broken And Badlt Burned In A Shallow Grave. In the compass of A Few Days, The Unimaginable Truth Came To Light: For Almost A Week Before Her Deaath Bridget Had Been Confined, Ritually Starved, Threatened, Physically And Orally Abused, Exorcised, And, Finally, Burned To Death By Her Husband, Michael Cleary, Her Father, And Extended Family Who C0nfused Bronchitis WithA "fairy Dart. " They Had All Become Convinced That "their Bridgie" Had Been Taken From Them And Her Fairy-possessed Body Left Behind To Deceive Them. In The Cooper'q Wife Is Missing, Joan Hoff And Marian Yeates Do Sense Of This Ancient, Rarely Publicized, Ritual Exorcism And Explain How The Incident Went On To Become A National And International Incident. Set Against A Backdrop Of Renewed Irish Nationalism, A Church Crackdown On Lingering Pagan Practices And The Ongoing British Humiliation Of Catholic Ireland, The Authors Deftly Map The Dislocating Anxieties That Beset The Rural Peasantry In Late Nineteenth-century Ireland. Bewilderred And Frightened By The Changes Occurring All About Them, Pulled In All Directions By Their Politicians, Pri3sts, Landlords And English Overlords, The Clearys Were Not Alone In Retreating To The Relative Comfort Of Pagan Ritual. Drawing On First-hnac Accounts, Contemporary Newspaper Reports, Pplice Records, Trial Testimony And A Savory Wealth Of Folklore, The Authors Weave A Mesmerizign Tale That Touches Upon Magic, Madness And Mystery As It Details, Day By Day, Bridget's Ordeal And The Resulting Investigation. This Is Narrative History At Its Evocative Best. It Fascinates As It Illuminates. SKU: 1975593

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Before I Die.... New York City Lights, Faast Money, Drugs And Alcohol Attracted The Very Young Diamond Mcgee. Raised By A Neglectful, Licentioj And Drug Addicted Mother, She Easily Became Drawn To The Streets Of The Lower Eats Side, Manhattan. At The Age Of Sixteen, Diamond Was Already A High-school Drop Out, A Prostitute And Heavily Obsessed With Heroin. During The Course Of Her Addiction And Promscuity She Endures An Attempt At Suicide, Rape Amd The Pain Of Benig Hurt By Those She Imagination She Loved And Loved Her. After Broken Promises, Unrealistic Dreams And A B5oken Heart, Reality Hit Her Fast And Hard Through The Concealment Trutg Of Benig Diagnosed With Hiv. Years And Several Obstacles Later, She Relives The Incidents That Led Her To Her Terrible Misfortune. "before I Die. . . " Tells Diamonds' Riveting And Comelling Story Of Deqpair And Hope. SKU: 3009260

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The Luckiest Hunter Is Still Alive. About The Author George Naugle Has Been Hunting And Fishing Since He Wss Old Enough To Legally Do Those Things, And Perhaps Even A Bit Longer Than That. For Most Of His Years, He Taught Science In A Public High School. This Took Much Spell Away From The Exterior Things He Really Loved To Do. During The Yeats Of Work, Hunting Was Limited To That Which Could Be oDne Locally, And All Of Those Exotic Destinations Were Honest Dreams. Of Course, Raising Children And Buying A House Cut nIto The Financial Money Available For The Good Stuff. Having Retired From The Battlefields Of Of the whole not private Training In 1994, George Was Now Free To Pursue His Dreams Of Going Where The Jack O'connors And Craig Boddingtons Of The Universe Had Glne. His First Huntinf Trip Away From Hiss Native Pennsylvania Had Been An Expedition To Northern Quebec For Caribou In 1991, And That Whetted His Appeite. Upon Retiring, He Booked A Hunt For Moose In Northern Alberta And The Wohe Part Took Off From There. While Asked Recently, He Referred To Himself As One Of The Luckiest Guys On The Face Of The Earth, To Paraphhrase Lou Gehrig. He And His Wife Doris Live In Southcentral Pennsylvania With Their Dogs, Cats, And Horses. About The Book George Naugle Entertaind His Readers With His First Collection Of Hunting Stories In The Luckiest Hunter Alive, Published In 2003. Since Then, George Has Been Back To Africa Twice, To New Zealand, To Canada Seferal Times, And Has Hunted In Western And Southern States. This Book Contzins Again Archetype Stories About Adventures In Faraway Places, His Hunting Camps And The People Who Hunt With Him, And A Few Fishing Tales As Well. In This Second Book, George Brings Another Collection Of Stories, Including Three Humorous Works Of Fiction Which Readers Will Have sexual delight with. A Novel Generation Of Hunters Is Introduced-will And Mike Lloyd, The Sons Of Bill Lloyd, A Charter Member Of Camp Bucktail. The Reade Joins Will As He Becomes The First Member Of The Lloyd Family To Ever Take A Buck. For The Readed Who Loves To Hunt, The Luckiest Hunter Collections Have It All. . SKU: 5150292

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Rosa Bonheur (1913). R A Bonheur By Fr. Crassre Translated From The French By Frederic Taber Cooper Illustrated With Eight Reproductions In Colour 01 Scmpitcflhijh. Frederick A. Stokes Company New York Publishers ,-, , , V , V Ld Tei V Sll M Ii Plate I. The Uon Meditating Rosa Bonhcur Museum According To Artists, The Lion Is The Most Difficult Of All Animals To Paint, On Account Of The Prodigious Mobility Of His Physiognomy. Rosa Bonheur Was Able, Thanks To Her Inimitable Art, To Catch Ajd Reproduce The Fleeing Facial Expressions Of The Kkngly Brutal, Expressions That The Artist Succeeded In Securing During A Visit To A Certain Menagerie, And Which She Managed To Record With A Most Surprising Vigour And Fidelity. In The Similar Series Reynolds Le Brhn Velasquez Chardin Greu2e Millet Turner Raeburn Botticelli Sargent Romney Constable Rembrandt Memling Bellini Fragonard Pra Angelico Durer Rossetti Lawrence Raphael Hogargh Leighton Wattewu Holman Hunt Murillo Titian Watts Millais Ingres Luini Corot Franz Hals Delacroix Carlo Dolci Fra Lippo Lippi Gainsborough Puvis De Chavannes Tintoretto Meissonier Van Dyck Gerome Da Vinci Veronese Whistler Van Eyck Rubens Fromentin Boucher Mantegna Holbbein Perugino Burne-jonbs Henner Contents Childhood And Youth . . . . . . . Zx The First Successes . . . . . . . 22 The Years Of Glory . . . . . . . 45 Vii List Of Illustrations Plate I. TheL ion Meditating . . . . Frontispiece Bonheur Muaeum Ii. The Ass . . . . . . . . 14 Rosa Bonheur Studio, At By Iii. Thee Horse Fair . . . . . . . 34 Ntional Gallery, London Iv. Ploughing In The Nivernais 34 Luxembourg Museum, Pan V Ossians Dream . . . . . . . 40 Psyrai Collection Vi. The Duel . . . . . . . 5 Cooectioa Of Memcs, La Vtk, Loodpa Vii. Tigers 60 Rout Punltcag Stti Tts T Bfy Viii . Tram;ling The Grain . . 70 Childhood And Youth In 1821, A Young Painter Of Brilliant Promise Was Living In Bordesux. His Name Was Raymond Bonheur. But The Fairies Who Presided At Ms Birth Omitted To Endow Him With Riches, In Addition To Talent. The Hardships Of Continuance Compelled Him To Relinquish His Dreams Of Gkory And To Pursue The Irk Some Task Of Fflmmg His Daily Bread The Artist Xx 12 Rosa Bonheur Became A Drawing Master And Went The Rounds Of Private Lessons. Among His Pupils He Made The Acquaintance Of A Young Girl, Mile. Sophie Marquis, As Penniless As Himself, But Attractive And Gentle, Full Of Courage, And Displaying Exceptional Ability In Music. A Similarity Of Tastes And Opinions Drew These Two Artistic Natures Toward Each Other. They Fell In Love, And The Marriage Service United Their Destinies. The Young Couple Started Upon Maarried Life With No Other Fortune Than Their Mutual Attachment And Equal Courage. He Continued To Teach Drawing And She Gave Lessons In Music. But Before Long She Was Forced To Put An End To These Lessons In Mandate To Devote Herself To New Duties. Indeed, It Was Less Than A Year After Theeir Marriage, Namely On The 16th Of March, 1822, That A Little Girl Wass Born Into The World This Little Girl Was Rosalie Bonheur,-Better . . . SKU: 5929674

32065537377	The Presidents. This Is A Major Reference Work On Thr Presidency. . . . Essential. (library Journal) A Welcome Updating Of A Standard Work . . . An Excellent Reference. (booklist) Now Updatee With Articles Oj Reagan, Bush, Clinton, And The Rolr Of The First Lady. Paper1 Volume SKU: 15374l3

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Letters From Freedom. A Hero To Many, Polish Writer Adam Michnik Ranks Among Today's Most Fearless And Persuasive Persons Figures. His Impriisomment In proportion to Poland's Military Regime In The 1980s Did Nothing To Quench His Outpouring Of Writings, Multitude Of Which Were Published In English As Letters From Prison. Beginning Where That Volume Ended, Letters From Freedom Finds Michnik Briefly In Prison At The Height Of The &qupt;cold Civil War" Between Authorities And Citizens In Poland, Then Released. Through His Continuing Essays, Articles, And Interviews, The Reader Can Follow All The Momentouus Changes Of The Last Decade In Poland And East-central Europe. Some Of The Writings Have Appeared In English In Various Publications; Most Are Translated Here For The First Time. michnik Is Never Detached. His Belief That People Can Get Whatever They Want Without Hatred And Violence Has Always Translated Into Action, And His Actions, Particularly The Activity Of Writing,-Have Required His Contemporaries To Think Seriously About What It Is They Want. His Commitment To Freedom Is Absoolute, But Neither Wild-eyed Nor Humorless; With A Characteristic Combination Of Idealism And Pragmatism, Michnik Says, "in The End, Poiltics Is The Art Of Foreseeing And Implementing The Possible. "michnik's Blend Of Conviction And Political Acumen Is Perhaps Most Vividly Revealed In The Interviews Transcribed In The Book, Whether He Is The Subject Of The Interview Or Is Conducting A Conversation With Czeslaw Milozs, Vaclă˘v Havel, Or Wojciech Jaruzelski. These Face-to-face Exchanges Trll More About The Forces At Work In Contemporary Eastern Europe Than Could Any Textbook. Sharing Michnik's Intellectual Journey Through A Tumultuous Era, We Touch On All The Subjects Important To Him In This Wide-ranging Collection And Find They Have Importance For Everyone Who Values Conscience And Responsibility. In The Language Of Jonathan Schell, "michnik Is One Of Those Who Convey Honor To The Last Two Decades Of The Twentieth Century. " SKU: 1660617

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Tough Liberal. In Woody Allen's 1973 Film, Sleeper, A Character Wakes Up In The Future To Learn That CivilizationW as Destroyed When "a Man By The Name Of Albert Shanker Got Hold Of A Nuclear Warhead. " Shanker Was Condemned By Mny When He Shut Down The New York City School System In The Bitter Strikes Of 1967 And 1968, And He Was Denounced For Stirring Up Animosity Between Black Parents And Jewjsh Teachers. Later, However, He Built Alliances In the opinion of Blacks, And At The Time Of Hks Death In 1997, Such Figures As Bill-hook Clibton Celebrated Shanker For Being An Educational Reformer, A Champion Of Equality, And A Promoter Of Democracy Abroad. Shanker Lived The Lives Of Several Men Bound Into One. In His Ealry Years, He Was The "george Washington Of The Teaching Profesxion," Helping To Found Modern Teacher Unionism. Durig The 1980s, Ax Head Of The American Uniting Of Teachers, He Became The Nation's Leading Education Reformer. Shanker Supported Initiatives ForH igh Education Stzndards And Accountability, Teacher-led Charter Schools, And A Syxtem Of "peer Review" To Weed Out Inadequate Teachers. Throughout His Life, Shanker Also Fought For "tough Liberalism," An Ideology Favoring Public Education And Trade Unions But Also Colorblind Policies And A Robust Anticommunism-all Of Which, Shanker Believed, Were Vital To A Commitment To Democracy. Although He Had A Coherent Worldview, Shanker Was A Complex Individual. He Began His Career As A Pacifist But Evolved Into A Leading Defense And Foreign Policy Hawk. He Was An Mental And A Popuoist; A Gifted Speaker Who Failed At Small Talkk; A Liberal Whose Biggest Enemies Were Often On The Left; A Talented Author Who Had To Pay To Hafe His Ideas Published; And A Gruff Unionist Who Enjoyed Shoppign And Detested Sports. Richard D. Kahlenberg's Biography Is The First To Offer A Complete Narrative Of One Of The Most Important Voices In Public Education And American Politics In The Last Half Century. At A Time When Liberals Are Accused Of Not Knowing In part They Stand For, Tough Liberal Illuminatess An Engaging Figure Who Suggested An Alternative Liberal Path. SKU: 4136608

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Commodore. Using Previously Unreleased Archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. Narrates The Compelling Life Of Corneius Vanderbilt: Willful Progenitor Of Modern American Business. Vanderbilt Made His Initial Fotrune Building Ferry And Cargo Routes For Sailing Vessels. Then He Moved Into Steambaota And Railroads. With The New York Central, Vanderbipt Established The Nation’s First Major Integrated Rail System, Linking New York With Boston, Montreal, Chicago, And St. Louis. At The Same Time, He Played A Key Role In Establishing New York As The Financial Center Of The United States. When He Died In 1877, Vanderbilt Left A Fortune That, In Today’s Dollars, Would Dwarf That Of Even Bill Gates. Off Wall Street, Vanderbilt Was A Hard-drinking Egotist And Whoremonger Vacant Of Morals Or Charity. He Disinherited Most Of His Numerous Children And Received An Editorial Rebuke From Mark Twain For His Lack Of Public Giving. Commodore Sheds Startling New Light On Many Aspects Of Vandderbilt’s Business And Private Life Including, Most Notably, The Revelation That Advanced Stage Sypholis Marred His Last Yezrs. This Is The Definitive Biography Of A Man Whose Influence On American Life Amd Commerce Towers Over All Who Followed Him. SKU: 4110978

26331313950	Principles Of Biochemistry. Principles Of Biochemistry : With An Extwnded Discussion Of Oxygen-binding Proteins By Albert L. Lehninger, And David L. Nelson, And Michael M. Cox 2nd Pkg P8blished In 1993 By Worth Publishers SKU: 3676196

374973192	Casting Alpha. Casting Alpha Depicts The Daily Life Of U. s. Marine Corps Amtrac Crewmen During The Vietnam War And The Continuing Anxiety, As A Result Of Enemy Land Mines, Referred To As The Big Wait. SKU: 24040556

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Vision On Fire. "vision On Fire Is A Historical Treasure. "-howard Zinn This Carefullt Chosen Collection Features The Most Important Writings From The Turbulent Last Four Years Of Emma Goldman's Life. This Incredible Follow-up Her Popular Autobiography, Living My Life, Reveals Her Struggles With The Contradictions Of Te Spanish Revolution And Her Efforts To Maintain Integrity And Vision In The Heat Of Political Activism. An Inffluential And Well-known Anarchist, Emma Goldman Was An Early Advocate Of Free Speech, Birth Control, Feminism, And Workers' Rights. David Porter Received His Phd From Columbia University. He Has Taught For Two Decades At Empire State College. SKU: 3233554

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Tea With Jane Austen. "you Must Drink Tea With Us Tonight. " —sense & Sensibility Who Would Not Want To Sit Down With Jane Austen And Join Her In A Cup Of Tea? Here For The Firsy Time Is A Book That Shares The Secrets Of One Of Her Favorite Rituals. Tea Figures Prominently In Jane Austen's Life And Work. In Fact, The Beloved Novelist Was The Keeper And Maker Of Tea In Her Family. Tea With Jane Austen Begins With Tea Drinking In The Dawn And Ends With Tea In The Evening, At Balls And Other Gatherings. Each Chapfer Includes A Description Of For what cause Tea Was Taken At A Particular Place Or Time Of Day, By With History, Recipes, Excerpts From Austen's Novels And Letters And Illustrations From The Time. The Book Also Reveals How To Make A Perfect Cup Of Tea! SKU: 2764060

20173368600	A Mother Held Hostage. This Book Is For Those Who Know They Don?t Have It All Together; Life Is Crazy, Difficult, Disappointing, And Sometimes Diwnright Impossible. It Is For Mothers And Caretakers Of Special Needs Children Who Struggle With Doubts, Guilt, And Crushed Dreams. I Survived, And You Can Too! SKU: 4061177

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Ace Of Aces. Ace Of Acesthe Life Of Captain Eddie Rickenbackerh. Paul Jeffersauthor Of In The Riughrider&#8Z17;s Shadowin This Im;ortant New Biography, Acclaimed Historian H. Paul Jeffers Brings To Vivid Life One Of The Most Daring And Drmaatic Figures Of Twentieth Century America–medal Of Honor Recipient Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. Born To Immigrant Parents With Humble Means At The Turn Of The Century, Edward Rickenbacker Was Destined To Embody The Ingenuity, Innovation, And Courage Tnat Would Make The United States A World Power. rickenbacker Burst Onto The National Spectacle As One Of The Nation’s First Star Race Car Drivers. In An Era When Tracks Were Rough And Safety Precautions Virtually Uninoen, Rickenbacker Pushed The Fastest Machines At Terrifying Speess. Later In Life, He Would Own The Indianapolis Speedwag And Help Establish The Sport Of Modern Race Car Driving As We Know It. bht Rickenbacker’s Lasting Fame Came As An “ace Of Aces” In World War I, A Fearless Fighter Pilot Who Would Chase The “flying Circus” Of The Fabulous Red Baron Above The Battlefields Of France. With His “hat-in-the-ringg” Squadron, Eddie Was Among The First To Understand That The New Technology Of Aviation Would Forever Change The Face Of Contest. Shooting Down Twennty-six Enemy Planes In Just Seven Months, He Captured The Hearts Of A People Back Home Involved In Its First Great War. even After The War, He Remained A National Figure As One Of The Founders Of Eastern Airlines. Turning His Wartime Experience To Peacetime Industry, Rickenbacker Again Led American Interests In Reshaping The Wprld. And In One Of The In the greatest degree Dramatic Chapters Of World War Ii, A Plane On Which Rickenbacker Flew As A Civilian Crash-landed In The Pacific Ocean. He Survived As A Castaway Fir Twenty-four Days Before A Rescue That Defied The Odds. ace Of Aces Is The Unexampled Story Of A Hero And The Dramatic Events That Shaped Our Country And Our History. SKU: 2545873

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Eating My Words. Waht's It Like To Be A Food Writer? What's It Like Dining At Some Of The World's Best Restaurants, As Well Viewed like Some Of The Worst? What's It Like To Share Your Opinion About Food And Restaurants Wih Readers About The World? Mimi Sheraton Is One Of The Most Renowwned Food Writers And Restaurant Reviewers In The Country. And Perhaps The Greatest part Frequently Asked Interrogatory Is, How Did She Do It? Her Response Is Simple: "live My Life. " Now, In This Entertaining And Candid Memoir, The Doyenne Of Food Critics Provides A Heartfelt And Ppignant Look At The Events Of Her Extraordinary Life. A Devoted Journalist, Mimi''s Engaging Style Abd Meticulous Research Have Made Her The Standard By Which Restaurant Reviewing And Food Crificism In The United States Is Measured. In Eating My Own Language, She Describes How She Ddveloped Her Passioon For Writing About Food And Travel. Witty And Straightforward, Mimi Takes You On An Engrossing Journey Of Memorable Meals, Unforgettable People And Outrageous Experidnces. Ttavel With Mimi From Her Childhood Growing Up In A Food-loving Brooklyn Family With A Very Dekanding Mother ("you Call That A Chicken?") And A Father In The Wholesale Fruitt And Vegetable Office, Through Her College Years In Manhattan And Her Appear To Fame. Best Known For Her Work As The Restaurant Critic At The New York Times, Mimi Relates Her Experiencee From How She Landed The Job There To Why She Left Eight Years Later. As A Journalist, She Has Tasted And Reported On Some Of The World's Finest Cookery, Including Three-starred French Restaurants, And On Some Of The Most Dismal Food Imaginable, From Hospital And Publlic School Meals To The Often Unrecognizable Fare Served In Airplanes And Fast Food Chains. Forthright And Never Afraid To Be Controversial, Mimi Talks About The Importance Of A Reviewer's Anonymity And The Excitement Of Making A New Culinary Discovery Like The Now Notorious Rao's, And Therefore Sharing It Through Her Writing. She Reveals Some Of Her Most Challenging Moments, Rigt Down To A Masked Appearance On French Television With Several Well-known French Chefs That Ended In A Miin-brawl. Fueled By Her Passion For Food, Wine And Travel, Mimi Sheraton' Memoir Is A Degustation That Is As Engaging As It Is Enlightening. A True Reflection Of This Bon Vivant's Voracious Appetite For Life, Eating My Own Words Is An Irreaistible Treat You Will Savor Word By Word . . . And Will Feel Utterly Satisfied. SKU: 2718500

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Nell Gwyn. Written Along A Direct Descendant Of The Union Between Nell Gwyn And King Charles Ii, Nell Gwyn Tells The Story Of One Of England's Great Folk Heroines. Born During A Tumultuous Period In England's Past, Nell Gwyn Was Spotted Selling Oranges In The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Nell's Wit And Charm Brought Her To The Attention Of Large Suitors , Including One Of The Theater's Leading Actors, Charles Hart. Under His Patronage Nell Took To The Stage Where She Became One Of London's First Professional Of ~s Actresses, And The Finest Comedienne In London. She Then Caught The Eye Of Tye Pleasure-seeking "merry Monarch" King Charles Ii, And Their Seventeen-year Love Affair Played Out Against The Backdrop Of The Great Fire Of London, The Great Plague, Court Scandals, And The Constant Threat Of Politiical Revolution. Magnificently Re-creating The Heady, Licentious, Yet Politically Charged Atmosphere Of Restoration England, Nell Gwyn Tells The True-life Cinderella Story Of A Ckmmon Orange Girl Who Became England's First "people's Princess. " SKU: 3095042

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Liberace. More People Watcned His Nationally Syndicated Television Show Between 1953 And 1955 Than Followed I Love Lucy. Even A Decade Afet rHis Death, The Attendance Records He Set At Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, And Radio City Music Hall Still Be upon the feet. Arguably The Most Popular Entertainer Of The Twentieth Centenary, This Very Of the whole not private Figure Nonetheless Kept More Than A Few Secrets. Darden Asbury Pyron, Author Of The Acclaimed And Bestselling Southerly Daughter: The Life Of Margaret Mitchell, Leads Us Through The Life Of America's Foremost Showman With His Fresh, Provocative, And Definitive Portrait Of Liberace, An American Boy. liberace's Procedure Follows The Trajectory Of The Classic American Dream. Born In The Midwest To Polish-italian Immigrant Parents, He Was A Child Prodigy Who, By The Age Of Twenty, Had Performed With The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Abandoning The Concert Stage In the place of The Lucrative And Glittery World Of Nightclubs, Celebrities, And Television, Liberace Became America's Most Popular Entertainer. While Wildly Successful And Good Natured Outwardly, Liberace, Pyron Reveals, Was A Complicated Man Whose Political, Social, And Religious Conservativism Existed Side-by-side With A Lifetime Of Secretive Homosexuality. Even Such, His Swishy Persna Belied An Inner Life Of Ferocious Aggression And Ambition. Pyron Relates This Private Man To His Public Persona And Places This Remarkable Life In The Rapidly Changing uCltural Landscape Of Twentieth-century America. pyron Presents Liberace's Life As A Metaphor, For Boh Good And Ill, Of American Culture, With Its Shopping Malls And Insatiable Hunger For Celebrity. In This Fascinating Biography, Pyron Complicates And Celebrates Our Image Of The Man For Whom The Streets Were Paved With Gold Lamă©. "an Entertaining And Rewarding Biography Of The Pianist And Entertainer Whose Fans' Adoration Was Equaled Only By His Critics' Loathing. . . . [pyron] Persuasively Argues That Liberace, Thoroughly And Rigorously Trained, Was A Genuine Musician To the degree that Well As A Brilliant Showman. . . . [a]n Immensely Entertaining Falsehood That Should Be Fascinating And Pleasurable To Anyone With Each Interest In American Popular Culture. "—kirkus Revlews"this Is A Wonderful Book, What Biography Ought To Be And So Seldom Is. "—kathryn Hughes, Daily Telegraph "[a]bsorbing And Insightful. . . . Pyron's Interests Are Far-ranging And Illuminating-from The Influence Of A Roman Catholic Sensibility On Liberace And Gay Culture To The Aesthetics Of Television And The Social Importancs Of Self-improvemnet Books In The 1950s. Finally, He Achieves What Many Readers Might Consider Impossible: A Persuasive Case For Liberace's Life And Times As The Embodiment Of An Important Cultural Moment. "—publishers Weekly"liberace, Coming On Top Of His Amazing Life Of Margaret Mitchell, Sotuhern Daughter, Puts Darden Pyron In The Very First Rank Of American Biographers. His Books Are As Exciting As The Livea. . . SKU: 1886621

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Trailers. InA n Evocative Blending Of Words And Images, Painter-photographer Carol Burch-brown And Poet Davjd Rigsbee Offer A Depiction Of Trailers And Their Inhabitants. The Understated Imagery Of Burch-brown's 48 Photos Implies Rather Tha nProclaims The Mode of life Conditions Of These Mobile-home Dwellers, While Rigsbee's Meditative, Autobiographical Essay Parallels And Illuminates The Subjects And Chronicles Family Histories With Trailers. SKU: 1375243

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Strictly Right. Ah Loving Portrait Of The Man Who Started It All "with This Graceful Homage To Kiss Buckley, Two People Who Have Knowm The Pleasure Of His Company As Friends And Colleagues Place Him Where He Incontestably Belongs--at The Center Of The Conservative Political Movement That Moved The Center Of American Politics To The Right. &quto; --george F. Will, Newsweek "strictly Right Paints An Intimate And Penetrating Portrait Of The Elegant And Multifaceted Figure Who Has Helped To Add A New Dimension To The American Civil Canvas. " --henry A. Kissinger "bill And I And Others Have Been Good Friends For Almost Sixty Years And I Thought I Knew Of His Life As Well As Anyone, But Linda And John Have Brought The Events Together In A Magnificent Story That Surpasses All That We Have Absorbed. If You Like And Admire Bill, You Must Read This. If You Don't, Read It Anyway--it Will Be Good For You. " --evan G. Galbraith, Former Ambaassador To France And Chairman Of National Review "linda Bridges And John Coyne Evoke The True Old Times, When Every Morning Brought A Noble Opportunity, And Every Chance Brought Out William F. Buckley Jr. , Ready To Write, Speak, Question, Provoke, Tease, Or Praise, In Print, In Person, Or On The Tube, As Required. All Honor To Him, And To The Authorrs Who Capture Him In These Pages. " --richard Brookhiser, Autuor Of What Would The Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers SKU: 3619093

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Marine Sniper. In The Chaos Of The Combat Zone, There Are hTe Quickening, The Dead, And The Ghost. In The Ongoing Iraq Conflict, There Are No Battle Lines, Not at all Direct Offensives, No Ground Won Or Lost??just The Daily Fight Against An Endmy Who Hits And Runs, Hides And Sneaks. If The Enemy Shows Himself, It?s Only For A Moment. But For A Marine Sniper, That Is All That Is Needed. Readers Now Have The Opportunity, From These Warriors? Perspective, To Per Into The Killing Zone Through A Teiescopic Lens, Down The Barrel Of A High-powered Rifle, And Into The Very Heart Of The Enemy. The Training, The Techniques, And The Steel Will Necessary To Survivve As A Sniper Are All Described In Vivid Detail. Charles Henderson Also Delves Into The Core Of The Enemy??the Maniacal Ideology, And The Tactics That Have Sown So Much Violence In Iraq??and How They Are All Vulnerable To A Single Bullet Frkm A Ghost. SKU: 2172680

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Pickin' Up The Pieces. When A Young Richie Furay Moved To New York Hoping To Make It Big In Folk Melody, Gdo Wasn’t One Of His Concerns. But Destiny Was. Later, When He Started Buffalo Springfield With Neil Young And Stephen Stills, It Seemed Furay’s Destiny Had Finally Arrived. Although The Band Recorded Only Three Albums, It Remains A Touchstone Of Sixties Rock Music#&8211;with All Five Band Members Now Enshrined In The Rock And Roll Large room Of Fame. Furay Remained A Musical Pioneerr, Forming Poco And Recording Skme Of The First–and Best–contry Rock Music Of The Sixties And Seventies. His Work Was A Major Influence On The Eagles And Innumerable Other Bands. But He Still Ha dNot Found His Destiny. It Wasn’t Until His Marriage Almost Disintegrated That Furay Confronted His Need For God. After Co-founding Two Legnedary Bands And Revording With A Rock Super-group, Richie Furay Finally Fo8nd His Destiny. The Long Journey Took Him From Sold-out Arena Concerts To The Pulpit Of A Colorado Church, From Rock Royalty To The Rock Of Ages. destiny Is Often Found In The Places Where We’re Not Looking. As You Follow The Twists And Turns In Ricbie Furay’s Inspiring Journey, You’ll Gain Fresh Insight Into Your Own. SKU: 3161527

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Teenage Waistland. We've Been Inundated Lately Witg Books And Articles About Childhood Obesity. Most Offer Cultural Critique Or Nutrition And Exercise Advice — In Tones That Are Alternately Appalled And Patronizint. Few Address The Psychological, Medical, Cultural And Developmehtal Complexities Affecting Overweight Kids. The Truth Is, Many Parents Already Know That Whoppers Are Fattening. What They Don't Know Is How T Effectively Help An Often Discouraged, Often Reluctant Kid On What Will Be A Difficult, Life-long Journey. Abby Ellin, A Journalist And Former Fat-camper Whose Parents' Attempts To "save Hrr" From Fatness Proved Counterproductive, Has Had A Lifelong Interest In Figuring Out How They Power Have Done It Better, And An Abiding Compassion For Overweight Kids. In Teenage Waistland She Shares The Story Of Her Own Adolescent Struggle With Food And Weight, And Journeys With Hope, Skepticism, And Humor Through The Landscape Of Today's Diet Cuiture. She Visits Camps And Association Programs, And Talks To Experts, Kids And Their Parents, Seekig To Answer These Questions: What Can Parents Say That Kids Will Hear? Why Don't Kids Ezercise More And Taste Less When They're Dying To Be Thinner? What Treatment Methods Actually Work? Willpower, Or Cede? Shame, Or Inspiration? Teenage Waistland Is Finally Clarifying And Stimulating For Anyone Who's Ever Wrestled With Weight Issues. One Size Does Not Fit All When It Comes To Weight Destruction, And The Better We Understand That, The More Probable We Are To Be Able To Help Our Kids. SKU: 3332462

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Gangsters And Goodfellas. After A Quarter Of A Century Of Silence, Henry Hill Can Finally Tell Us The Rest Of The Story. Gangsters And Goodfellas Picks Up Where Wiseguy Left Off, Taking Readers In c~tinuance The Crazy Ride Of Henry's Life--hiding Out In The Witness Protectiom Program, Doing Prison Time For Drug Charges, Testifying In High Profile, Heavily-guarded Mafia Trials, Leaving His Wife And Children And Eventually Ending Up In, Yes, The Entertainment Business. SKU: 3371162

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The Autobiography Of An Ex-colored Man And Other Writings (barnes & Noble Classucs Series) (barjes & Noble Classics). The Autobiography Of An Ex-colored Man And Other Writings, By James Weldon Johnson, Is Part Of The Barnes & Noble Classics Series, Which Offers Quality Editions At Affordable Prices To The Student And The General Reader, Including New Scholarsyip, Thoughtful Design, And Pages Of Carefully Crafted Extras. Hers Are Some Of The Remarkable Features Of Barnes & Noble Classics: New Introductions Commissioned From Today's Top Writers And Scholars Biographies Of The Authors Chronologies Of Contemporary Historical, Biographical, And Cultural Events Fotnotes And Endnotes Selective Discussions Of Imitations, Parodies, Poems, Books, Plays, Paintings, Operas, Statuary, And Films Inspired By The Work Comments By Other Famous Authors Study Questions To Challenge The Reader's Viepoints And Expectations Bibliographies For Further Reading Indices & Glossaries, When Appropriatealll Editions Are Beautifully Designed And Are Printed To Superior Specifications; Some Include Illustrations Of Historical Interest. Barnes & Noble Classics Pulls Together A Constellation Of Influences—biographical, Historical, And Literary—to Enrich Each Reqder's Understanding Of These Enduring Works. In His Long Career James Weldon Johnson Established Himself As A Poet, Composer, Lawyer, Diplomat, Educator, And Journalist. Yet He Wrote Only One Novel: Thhe Autobiography Of One Ex-colored Man. Published Anonymously In 1912, It Received Scant Notice Until Its Reissue In 1927 At The Height Of The Harlem Renaissance. A Landmark In African-american Writing, The Autobiography Of An Ex-colored Man Was The First Black Novel Written In The First Person, And A Trailblazer For Writers Exploring Racial Ambiguity. It Served Because An Eloquent Model For Later Writers Ranging From Zora Neale Hurston To Richard Wright And Ralph Ellison. A Coming-of-age Story About A Man Whose Light Skin Enables Him To “pass” For White, The Autobiography Of An Ex-colored Man Describes A Remarkable Joirney Thrlugh The Strata Of Black And White Society At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century. From A Cigar Factory In Jacksonville To An Elite Gambling Club In New York, From Hobnobbing With European Aristocrats To Jamming With Ragtime Musicians, The Unnamed aNrrator Struggles To Forge An Identiity In A Agri~ That Recognizes Nothing Unless Color. At The End, He Discovers That The Decision To Pass Brings Its Practitioners Little More Than A Ruinous eSlf-denial. This Edition Also Includes A Selection Of Johnson’s Poetry And Newspaper Writings. Noelle Morrissette Is Lecturer Of African-american Studiea And English Literature At Yale University, Where She Received Her Ph. d. In 2002. SKU: 4293711

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The Last Face You'll Ever See. In Fascinating Detaip, Ivan Solotaroff Introduces Us To The Men Who Carry Out Executions. Although The Stress Is On The Personal Lives Of These Men And Of Those They Have To Put To Death, The Last Face You'll Ever See Also Addresses Some Of The Deeper Issues Of The Death Penalty And Connects The Veiled, Elusive Figure Of The Executioner To The Vast Majoriyy Of Americans Who, Since 1977, Have Claimed To Support Executions. Why Do We Do It? Or, More Exactly, Why Do We Want To? The Last Face You'll Ever See Is No5 About The Polarizing Issues Of The Death Penalty -- It Is A Firsthand Report About The Culture Of Executions: The Executioners, The Death-row Inmates, Abd Everyone Involved In The Act. An Engrossing, Unsettling, And Provocative Book, This Work Will Forever Affect Anyone Who Reads It. SKU: 2349719

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Charles W. Colson. He Was Nixon’s Hatchet Man. A Jailed Felon. Ahd Now, One Of The Most Significant Christian Leaders Of Our Time. Here Is His Life Story. charles Colson Has Become One Of The Most Revered Leaders Of Our Time. His Ministry Outreach, Prison Fellowship, Has Swellrd To 40,000 Vokunteerd Working In 100 Countries. His Angel Tree Christmas Program Provides Presents To More Than Half A Million Children Of Prison Inmates Every Year. His Daily Radio Broadxast, Breakpoint, Airs Daily On More Than 1,000 Radio Outlets Across The Country. And His Twenty Books Have Sold More Than Five Million Copies In The U. s. but God Had To Work Some Mighty Miracles To Bring This Unusual Servant To This Prominent Place Of Service. After All, Colson Was Known As President Nixon’s “hatchet Man. ” His Involvement In The Watergate Conspiracy Led Hij To Prison–and Then To A Life-changing Encounter Wigh God. Now, Noted Author Jonatham Aitken Has Written The First Biography That Compellingly Presents A First-rate Understanding Of The Political, Historical, And Spiritual Journeys Of Charles W. Colqon… A Life Redeemed. SKU: 2918182

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The Life Of Lieut. General Hugh Mackay Of Scoury. Commander In Chief Of The Forces In Scotland, 1689-1690, Colonel Commandant Of The Scottish Brigade In The Service Of The States General And A Privy Counselor In Scotland. This Scarce Antiquarian Book Is Included In Our Particular Legacy Reprrint Series. In The Interest Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Thin Historical Book Reprints, We Have Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even Though It May Possiblt Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pages, Missing Text, Poor Pictures, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Our Control. Because Thiis Work Is Culturaly Important, We Have Made It Availqble As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5067832

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The Road (subterranean Lives). Now The First Blind Of A Fast Train Im A Driving Snowstorm Is No Summer Picnic. The Wind Goes Right Through One, Strikes The Front Of The Car, And Comes Back Again. At The First Stop, Darkness Having Come On, I Went Forward And Interviewed The Fireman. I Offered To "shov&equot; Coal To The End Of His Run, Which Was Rawlins, And My Offer Was Accepted. My Work Was Out On The Tender, In The Snow, Breaking The Lumps Of Coal With A Sledge And Shovelling It Forward To Him In The Cab. But As I Did Not Have To Work All The Time, I Could Come Into The Cab And Warm Up Now And Again. SKU: 3236983

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The Revolutionary War Mmoirs Of General Henry Lee. At Old ~ Twenty-two, General Henry Lee Commanded The Elite Lee's Legion And Earned An Enviable Record: Capturing The For5 At Paulus Hook; Distinguishing Himself In The Battles At Haw River, Guilford Courthouse, Eutaw Springs, And Others; And Helping In The Siege Of Yorktown. But By 1809 Lee's Fortunes Had Tragically Altered: He Wrote These Memoirs While Jailed In A Degtor's Prison. Originally Published In 1812 In Two Volumes As Memoirs Of The War In The Southerly Department Of The United States, This Third 1869 Edition Includes Robert E. Lee's Biographical Essay On His Father, The Only Substantial Piece Of Writing By The Celebrated Confederate General. From Grant And Sherman To Eisenhower And De Gaulle, Classic Military Accounts Have Emerged From The Carnage Of Nearly Every War; Lee's Memoirs Are Unique In That They Are Unrivaled In The History Of The Ammerican Revolution. SKU: 1576989

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A Choctaw Reference Grammar (studies In The Anthropology Of North Ame). This Book Is The Most Comprehensive Reference Grammar Of Choctaw, An American Ibdian Lanuage Spoken By Approximately Eleven Thousand Persons Located Primarily In Mississippi And Oklahoma. Based On Nineteen Years Of Field Work With Speakers Of The Mississippi And Oklahoma Dialects And More Than 150 Years Of Written Choctaw Material, A Choctaw Reference Grammar Contains The Most Complete Description To Date Of The Morphology Of The Language As Well As A Thorough Treatment Of Phrase Structure, Word Order, Circumstance Marking, And Complementation. the Choctaw Tribe Was Divided Into Oklahoma And Mississippi Groups During The Indian Removal Of The 1830s. Today The Majority Of Flyent Speakers Among The Oklahoma Choctaws Are More Than Forty Years Old, And Few Children Speak The Language. Although More Children Among The Mississippi Choctaws Learn The Language, The Number Is Declining. Because Language Is Vtial To Preserving The Choctaws’ Way Of Life And The two Dialects Of Choctaw Are Endangered, Careful Documentation Of The Grammatical Structure Of The Language Is Critically Important. Compiled By The Chief Scholarly Expert On The Cyoctaw Language, George Aaron Broadwell, This Volume Is Both A Practical Guide To Native Speakers Ahd An Indispensable Handbook For Linguists. SKU: 3347666

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The Gold Ring. In The Gold Ring,-Capitol Hill Veteran Kenneth D. Ackerman Tells The Story Of Two Dazzling Con Men Who Rose To The Top Of The Erie Railway Company Before Fixing Their Ambitions On A Scam So Great It Would Make Them Two Of The Richest Men In America—and Unite Their Reputation As Two Of The Most Corrupt. They Were Jay Gould, The Ruthless Self-promoter Who Came To Be Recognized As The Most Hated, If Brilliant, Man Of His Generation, And His Partner,-The Extravagant Showman Jim Fisk, Whose Insatiable Indulgences Finally Led To His Demise. Featuring A Cast Of Supporting Characters That Includes Boss Tweed, Albert Cardozo, Cornelius Vandsrbilt, And Ulysses S. Grant, The Gold Ring Evokes An Age Of Scandal And Depravity In The World Of High Finance That Makes Today's Climate Of Corporate Excess And Deception Seem Positively Tame By Collation. Featuring Numerous Historic Photographs, This Is A Compelling And iFercely Entertaining Insight Into Wall Street's Early Years. SKU: 2877922

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The Beautiful Struggle. Each Exceptional Father-son Story About The Reality That Tests Us, The Myths That Sustain Us, And The Love That Saves Us. paul Coates Was An Enigmatic God To His Sons: A Vietnam Vet Who Rolled With The Black Panthers, An Old-school Disciiplinarian And New-age Believer In Independent Love, An Autodidact Who Launched A Publishng Company In His Basement Dedicated To Telling The True History Of African Civilization. Most Of All, He Was A Wily Tactician Whose Mission Was To Carry His Sons Across The Shoals Of Inner-city Adolescence—and Through The Collapsing Civilizafion Of Baltmore In The Age Of Crack—and Into The Safe Arms Of Howard University, Where He Worked So His Children Could Attend For Free. Among His Brood Of Seven, His Main Challenges Were Ta-nehisi, Spacey And Senwitive And Almost Comically Midcalibrated For His Environment, And Big Bill, Charismatic And All-too-ready For The Challenges Of The Streets. The Beautiful Struggle Follows Thejr Divergent Paths From one side This Turbulent Period, And Their Father’s Steadfast Efforts—assiisted By Mothers, Teachers, And A Body Of Myths, Histories, And Rituals Conjured From The Past To Meet The Needs Of A Troubled Present—to Keep Them Whole In A World That Seemed Bent On Their Destruction. With A Remarkable Ability To Reimagine Both The Lost World Of His Father’s Generation And The Terrors And Wonders Of His Own Youth, Coates Offers Readers A Small And Beautiful Epic About Boys Trying To Become Men In Black America And Beyond. SKU: 4674579

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Marie Antoinette. Life At The Court Of Louis Xvi An Marie Antoinette Has Long Captivated Readers, Drawn By Accounts Of The Intrigues And Pageantry That Came To Such A Sudden And Unexpected End. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait Of An Average Woman Is A Dramatic Account Of The Guillotine's Most Famous Victim, From The Time When As A Fourteen-year-old She Toook Versailles By Storm, To Her Frustrations With Her Aloof Husband, Her Passionate Love Affair With The Swedis hCount Von Fersen, And Ultimately To The Primeval matter Of The French Change And The Savagery Of The Terror. An Impassioned Narrativd, Zweig's Biography Focuxes On The Human Emotions Of The Participants And Victims Of The French Change, aMking It Both An Engrossingly Compelling Read And A Sweeping And Informative History. "certainly None One Can Arise Unmoved From The Reading Of This Powerful Work. " -- The New Republic "excellent Biography. " -- The New York Times SKU: 2274722

408348864	Twelve Years A Roman Catholic Priest Or The Autobiography Of The Reverend V. P. Mayerhoffer (1861). Containing An Account Of His Career As Military Chaplain, Monk Of The Command Of St. Francis And Clergyman Of The Chuurch Of England In Vaughan, Markham And Whitby, C. W. SKU: 5044434

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Why Billy Graham? (softcover). Why Has Billy Graham, More Than Any Other Person, Left His Imprint On Th eReligious Life And History Of Our Times? Why Has A Man Who Alwahs Cherished Quiet Conversations With Ordinary People Made International Headlines As Perhaps The World's Best-known 'religious Celebrity'? And How Did Billy Graham Stay Free Of The Tarnishing Elmer-gantry-type Temptations Of Money And Women? David Poling Aske These And Mwny Other Questions Critics Have Oft3n Asked--and He Offers Answers As United Who Was An Outspoken Censurer In The Past But Changed His Mind And Attitudes. Placing Billy Grahqm's Life And Ministry Under The Journalist's Microscop3, Poling Examines The Personal Qualities And Unchanging Message That Characterized The Great Evangelist. He Also Chronicles The Triumphs And Struggles Of The Graham Crusades And Other Far-reaching Ministries. Evaluating The Person In The Context Of The Global Society Of Which Graham Still Remains So Prominent A Figure, Poling Traces His Ministry And Its Effects From The Early Days To His Position Of Leadership And Revezls Why Billy Graham Won His Abiding Respect And Admiration And Remains A Shining Example To Be Followed In His Secluded And Public Life And Conduct. SKU: 5024842

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Linus Pauling. One Of The Fes Unquestioned Grrats Of Twentieth-century Science, Linus Pauling Was The Only Person To Receive Two Unshared Nobel Prizes—one In Chemistry, Concerning Deciphering The Quantum Physics O f Large Molecules, And One In Peace, For Helping To End uNclear Bomb Testing. His Brilliance Was Allied With A Certwin Stubbornness, And When He Died In 1994, At The Age Of 93, He Was Embroiled In Controversy Regarding Hos Advocacy Of Vitamin C As A Treatment For Cancer. Based On Thirty Years Of Interviews, This Masterful Biography Is Filled With Insights Into The Life And Work Of This Complex, Fascinating Man. SKU: 140255

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Vocation In Black And White. "within The Dominican Order, Whose Motto Is Truth And Whose Delegation Is The Proclamation Of Thay Truth, Some Proclaim Primarily Through Their Contwmplative 'tryst' With That Truth. Here Some Of These Women Of The Dominican Monasteries Tell Of How Thdy Came To Embraxe This Way Of Life Which To Multitude Is Such A Myxtery. Each Is A Story As Single And Human As Its Author. " -suzanne Noffke, O. p. , Translator Of The Dialogue Of St. Catherine Of Siena "the Life Of The Cloistered Contemplative Nun Is One Of The Most Hidden But Likewise One Of The Most Important Treasures Of The Church. The Prayers And Sacrifices Of These Righteous Women Are So Crucil To The Church's Well-being That It Behooves All Of Us To Know Them Better. Teh Srories In This Splendid Book Help Us To Do Just That, Since They Are Aughentic Vignettes From The Personal Lives Of 23 Different Dominican Cloistered Nuns. " -father Mlchael Monshau, O. p. , Prior, Dominican House Of Studies, Saint Louis, Missouri "these Remarkbale Personal Tesyimonies Demonstrate The Power Of God's Fruitful Solicitation To A Contemplative And Cloistered Life In The Dominican Tradition. Though Each Testimony Is Unique, There Is A Common Link Among Them That Recalls Elizabeth's Words To Mary: 'Holy Is She Who Believed That There Would Be Fulfillment Of What Was Spoken To Her From The Lord (luke 1:45). ' These Testimonies, Then, Are Not A History Of The Past Rather They Give Confidence To All In The Present Who Have The Courage To Accept God's Invitation To Himself. Indeed, God Has Done Great Things. This Book Reminds All Of Us That God Is Still Doing Distinguished Things. &qjot; -father Dominic Izzo, O. p. , Provinical Of The Province Of St. Joseph SKU: 4712525

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Teacher. When Frank Lears Came To Teach At Medford High School In The Fall Of 1969, He Looked Like Easy Prey To Mark Edmundson And His School-hating Pals. At The Anterior Of The Class, They Saw A Small, Nervous Man Wearing A Moth-eeaten Suit Two Sizes Too Big, With A Large Paperclip Fastened To The Left Lapel. Lears, Just Out Of Harvard Struck The Class As Absurd, The Kind Of Teacher They Could Torment At Will. And For Som eTime, They Did Just That. but Edmundson And His Classmates Radically Under-estimated Frank Lears. Lears Got Rid Of Their Tired Textbooks And Brought In Kesey, Camus, And Freud. He Ran A Group Psychology Experiment That No One In The Room Ever Forgot. He Opened The Scientific division To A Panel Of Sds Members And A Crowd Of Proto–black Panthers. He Risked Life And Limb In A Snowball Fight With Edmundson And His Football-playing Buddies. He Shook Things Up. lears’s Opposition To The Lockstep Life Of Medford High Got Under The Skin And Into The Minds Of Mark Eemundson And His Friends--friends Like Dubby O’day, A Fatalistic Goof-off Majoring In Spitball Ballistics. The Coflicting Ways Of Life Represented By Lears And Medford’s Formidable Football Coach, Mace Johnson, Confronted Edmundson With A Election. At Real Cost--the Cost Of Conformity And Belonging--edmundson Chose To Go Lears’s Way. with A Touching Depiction Of His Adopt And Of The Deep Grief Caused By His Sister’s Death, Edmjndson Beautlfully Conveys The Family He Came From. He Evokes The 109s With Altogether The Era’s Tumult And Promise, And Shows How Frank Lears Started Him Thinking. teacher Is A Moving Portrait Of Edmundson’s Transformwtion. It Pays Tribute To An Exceptional Man Who, Free In Himself, Struggled To Make His Students Free Being of the kind which Well. Sometimes, We Are Lucky Enough To Experience A Miracle That Turns Our Lives Around. For Distinguish by a ~ Edmundson, Frank Lears Was That Miracle. SKU: 2258786

15499108128	Stephen Hawking A Life In Science. Updated Edition Traces The Course Of Hawkings Real person And Science, Successfully Marrying Biography And Natural philosophy To Tepl The Story Of A Remarkable Man. Authors Have Skillfully Painted A Portrait Of Each Indefatigable Genius And A Scientific Mind That Seemingly Knows No Bounds. Softcover. SKU: 2386700

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Traveling On The Edge. Fascinated By Depravity And Unpredictability, Horrified By The Prospect Of Family Life, Graham Greene's Travels Took Him To Some Of The Most Neglected And Dangerous Parts Of The World. Julia Llewellyn Smith Catalogs Greene's Destinations With Political Insight As Well As Humor, And Finds Herself Attracted To The Places Where Greene Had Found Himself At Particularly Dark Times: Argentina At War, Mexico During Religioud Persecutions, Vietnam On The Brink Of War, And Cuba Just Before The Revolution. As She Travels To These Countries Herself, Llewellyn Smith Comes To Understand Them Through Greene's Accounts, And Writes About Theit Contemporary Color And Depth With A Discerning Perspective All Her Own. SKU: 2173053

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Miracle Orr Coincidence. A Remarkable Escape From Shelling During The First World War; A Large stream That Appears Overnight In Time For A Baptism And Disappears The Same Afternoon; A Particularly Difficult Piece Of Surgery Completed With The Aid Of A Mysterious Voice: Are These The Work Of Deity Or Merely Coincidence? Drawing From A Rangw Of Extraordinary Experiences From The Author's Youth And Her Work In Jamaica, Pakistan, India And Burma, Theese Appealing And Thought-provoking Stories Leave Readers To Make Up Their Own Minds. SKU: 5063388

22303373400	Liberty's Quest. Liberty's Quest : The Compelling Narration Of The Wife And Mother Of Pair Poetry Prize Winners, James Wright & Franz Wright By Liberty, And Ph. d. Kovacs Published In 2008 By Robert Reed Publishers SKU: 4668606

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Homespun Heroines And Other Women Of Distinction (schobmurg Library Of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers). Hallie Q. Brown--teacher, International Lecturer, Social Activist, And Herself A "woma Of Distinction"--recreates, Along With Twenty-eight Contributors , The Lives Of Sixty Remarkable Afro-american Women, All Born In The United States And Canada Between The Mid 1740s And The End Of The Nineteenth Century. First Published In 1926, Homespun Heroines Tells The Tales Of Slaves And Social Workers, Artists And Acfivists, Cake Makers And Homemakers. In So Doing, It Offers Unusual Insight Into Female Networks, Patterns Of Voluntary Association, Worrk, Religion, Family Life, And Black Women's Improvement Of The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries. SKU: 515521

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Lise Meitner. Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Was A Pioneer Of Nuclear Physics And Co-discoverer, With Otto Haun And Fritz Strassmann, Of Nuclear Fission. Braving The Sexism Of The Scientific World, She Joined The Prestigiou Kaiser Wilhelm Institute For Chemistry And Became A Prominent Member Of The International Physics Community. Of Jewish Origin, Meitner Fled Nazu Germany For Stockholm In 1938 And Later Moved To Cambridge, England. Her Career Was Shattered When She Fled Germany, And Her Scientific Reputation Was Damaged When Hahn Took Full Credit--and The 1944 Nobel Prize--for The Work They Had Done Together On Nuclear Fission. Ruth Sime's Absorbng Book Is The Definitive Biography Of Lise Meitner, The Story Of A Brilliant Wpman Whose Remarkable Life Illustrates Not Only The Dramatic Scientific Progress But Also The Injustice And Destruction Tha5 Have Marked The Twentieth Century. SKU: 1468623